• DocumentCode
    399231
  • Title

    Reduction of chirped fiber grating group delay ripple penalty through UV post processing

  • Author

    Sumetsky, M. ; Westbrook, P.S. ; Reyes, P.I. ; Litchinitser, N.M. ; Eggleton, B.J. ; Li, Y. ; Deshmukh, R. ; Soccolich, C. ; Rosca, F. ; Bennike, J. ; Liu, F. ; Dey, S.

  • Author_Institution
    OFS Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    23-28 March 2003
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate adiabatic UV correction of smoothed group delay ripple from ±10 ps to ±2 ps yielding reduction of OSNR penalty (40Gbit/s CSRZ) from ∼ 4 dB to 0.5 dB over the tunable dispersion range of 270 to 750 ps/nm.
  • Keywords
    Bragg gratings; optical elements; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre fabrication; optical tuning; 4 to 0.5 dB; 40 Gbit/s; OSNR penalty; UV post processing; adiabatic UV correction; chirped fiber grating; group delay ripple penalty; tunable dispersion; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Delay; Fabrication; Fiber gratings; Frequency; Inverse problems; Optical noise; Signal to noise ratio; Surgery;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-746-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2003.1248609
  • Filename
    1248609